Tress and the emerald sea is a good starter. It’s in the cosmere, but it’s shorter and kind of gives a feel.

Laura apparently doesn’t know cell phone screen shot etiquette… You can only post screen shots if your cell phone battery is below 15%

Step 1. Be rich or know rich people

Step 2. Convince rich people to give you more money

Step 3. Repeat Step 2

Well i think you can also torrent off of there too. There are massive backup files on their home page that they are basically begging people to download and seed… So maybe it’s that?

Those are torrents, Annas Archive is typically used for direct downloads.

I think people vastly overestimate the impact of DEI anyway. Where I have worked it’s basically you can’t discriminate against women or minorities.

There were no extra points for hiring or promotion. HR had their diversity goals, but it was really out of their hands other than targeted advertising.

The elephant in the room that the anti DEI folk dance around is simply “But we want to discriminate!”

I mean 54% read at or below a 6th grade level, so that makes sense. Almost a fifth to a half of adult Americans are functionally illiterate depending on how you define it.

Isn’t there an entire movie about racism in NASA that’s basically just a feel good story for white people?

They won’t do that until they know where they stand in this. Currently, a month from now US biggest trading partners might end up being hit with 25% tariffs.

Or forces it on the military.

Mexican tariffs have already been delayed and or cancelled.

It’s hilarious because if it were 10% tariffs across the board, the discourse would be very much the same.

Dont worry, soon you will only make transactions in Doge and get paid in Bitcoin.

Why else would they be going out of their way to kill the dollar?

As far as I know they still haven’t forced all government agencies to use AI, which was talked about… So they also have a cash cow there.

Doesn’t the Tariffs Basically invalidate the old trade agreements, making them worthless so now the other countries can do whatever they want?

Idk. Doesn’t Deepseek motivate a lot of other companies to try to do something similar? They might end up selling more

This is a really good read. Thank you.

So more than a third of their net profits come from selling credits they received from the government? Am I understanding that correctly?

Wait, so after you train, you don’t need all those fancy Nvidia chips?

They should make one place where there is an overabundance of geo thermal energy and train all models there…

Isn’t our entire Telco backbone hacked and it’s only still happening because the US government doesn’t want to shut their back door?

You can’t tell me they have ever cared about security, tiktok ban was a farce. Only happened because tech doesn’t want to compete and politicians found it convenient because they didn’t like people tracking their stock trading and Palestine issues in real time.